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Uh Reggie, can you provide information on how to participate in comments?

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And anyone online.

Three, the development of a written approved project prioritization process to be adopted, communicated, and implemented as a proactive change within the NCIP processes.

This ensures that communication about the status of council approved projects can be confidently communicated to stakeholders.

And for example, if it's a first enforced first out, the prioritization on critical impact of community safety, there could be caps based on staff capacity for each approval.

So there are many ways to do that.

The committee could decide.

If the committee is going to use an annual cut list process, there should be a similar rationale driven criteria to employ consistently.

Approving new projects annually while a large unspent balance sits behind unstarted approvals.

It could conceivably be seen, and I I think I said this myself last year, that the appropriation rate itself is kind of not on target.

It slow down or be rethought until the backlog clears.

It is the NCIP that makes the decision to move forward, adding more publicly funded projects to a severely backlog system.

That is the one action the committee takes and due diligence as expected from a public committee in considering the costs entailed in operating in that manner.

Remember that inflow, even balance to outflow, will not move the needle on the backlog.

The backlog of funds sitting idle is not available for the community benefit.

This year the committee is in a great shape to invest time in developing its internal practices to benefit this benefit the cities and residents instead of rushing to a common activity.

Very much bye.

So we'll go ahead and close uh general public comment and then uh move on to informational reports and staff comments.

So I'll hand it over to staff.

Um we don't have any staff report this evening.

Okay, and next we'll move on to NCIP informational reports.

Um, and so I do want to just share as it relates to an update from last meeting.

Uh so after our meeting, I was able to reach out to the mayor and set up a time to meet with him individually.

Um, it was a very good conversation, uh, where we were both able, I think, to find a good middle ground and uh recommit to improving communication uh between the chair, vice chair, and the mayor, vice mayor.

Um, I think there are some things that uh are important for us to have discussions about as it relates to the feature of NCIP, what NCIP uh is going to look like in the future or should look like in the future, um, with the most important thing being that we are part of that conversation.

So not having not feeling like we are um changes being imposed upon us, but really being an active participant and um having those discussions of what things may look like uh in the future.

So I'm encouraged by having that meeting, and that discussion I did feel like um the concerns that were that I voiced specifically at our last meeting uh were heard and understood uh by the mayor and vice versa.

Um so I did want to just give that update that there was uh something that happened afterwards and and communication was made, and we are going to continue to uh make sure that we improve communication moving forward.

Um, and part of what we are um discussing today in our meeting is going to be kind of a taste of um kind of a new way of looking at projects, and you know, we've heard public comment about um how we look at projects and and how we evaluate projects and um I think uh this meeting a good uh introduction to some of those discussions that uh we will have today, and I hope we continue to have um board.

So that's it for me.

Um so we will move on to our first public appearance item, and I can hand it over to staff to introduce yeah, thank you.

Um, so our first item this evening is uh to adopt a revised neighborhood and community improvement program committee meeting building line schedule for development of the fiscal year 2026-27 neighborhood and community improvement program.

Um so I have a very brief presentation um that and I will share my screen here and we'll get into it.

So this evening, like I said, our first uh public appearance item is to adopt a revised uh schedule uh for the events and uh meetings this um for the this fall into the winter um what is uh so staff met with the chair and vice chair between uh the last meeting and this meeting to discuss uh making some changes to the schedule uh one of which would be to extend the nomination deadline uh from what was August 15th to September 30th uh review uh we would consolidate the review of uh existing projects which would be included in this starting uh this evening and then September 23rd and October 7th consolidate review of the nominative projects to October 14th, October 21st, and uh October 28th, and voting night would be December 9th, excuse me, and the rest of the schedule would remain unchanged.

So what you see here, the the dates that are highlighted in yellow were previously tentative dates on our um prior schedule, uh the green are new dates.

So what we've done um and then we also removed in particular the September 30th meeting, which conflicted with the city storm preparedness meeting, which will take place uh over at the convention center.

So what you see here uh is a revised schedule to achieve two goals, one which is to review existing projects and then consolidated um schedule to review new nominations and uh excuse me.

I feel pretty confident that this revised schedule will be will work.

Um we're getting rid of the first half, second half reviews because to date we uh we only have 30 nominations, which is significantly less than what we've received in previous years, and I'm confident we could review 1340 projects in one night.

That's the end of my presentation.

I want to thank you guys for making the change.

You can blame it on me.

No whiplash on the back though, that's tender.

I was looking at our previous schedule and I saw how September 30th was the same night of one of our meetings.

September 30th is the evening of the storm ready um that the city is putting out at the conference center, and this is real real important.

And I thought we all ought to be there.

Um so I'll I made some started making calls and stuff, and people were very receptive.

Um, I'm sorry if your schedule gets messed up.

Mine got messed up too.

But roll with the punches, we're gonna be able to accomplish both things of going to that town hall meeting so we can learn how to be storm ready.

And the other part of we will still be able to put our 100% right into the NCI pay.

So blame it on me.